GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER Assembly and User's Manual 88905, 88969
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GENERAL SAFETY GUIDELINES & RESTRICTIONS
This Manual contains many notes concerning the consequences of failure to maintain or inspect your GAS
CHOPPER SCOOTER™. Your safety and the safety of others is very important. We have provided important safety
messages in this manual and on the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™. Please read these messages carefully. A safety
message alerts you to potential hazards that could hurt you or others. Each safety message is preceded by a safety
alert symbol and one of two words.
You CAN be SERIOUSLY HURT or KILLED if you don't follow instructions. Failure to follow the instructions
following it may result in injury to the rider or others during use, which may include loosing control and falling.
Because any fall can result in serious injury or even death, we do not repeat the warning of possible injury or death
whenever the risk of falling is mentioned
Failure to follow the instructions following it may result in damage to the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™ or
component during assembly or use. (I.e. risk of property (product) damage only)
CHECK STATE & LOCAL LAWS
Your state department of motor vehicles (DMV), or the city or county where it will be used, may regulate the use of devices
like the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™. Some states may require a driver's license or minimum age to use the GAS CHOPPER
SCOOTER™, or require the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™ to be registered or licensed or require some additional type of
equipment like a brighter headlight. Please check with your state DMV or local municipality on requirements for using the
GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™. They can be located in the phonebook. State DMV offices can also be located on the Internet at
such sites as the following www.dmv.org or www.statehousegirls.net/agencies/dmv.
If your state or municipality allows the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™ to be used on vehicle roadways please make sure
you are familiar with all traffic laws as set forth by your state DMV, such as yielding to pedestrians and other
motorists, signaling, riding as far to the right edge of the roadway as possible, obeying traffic signs etc. Your state
DMV can provide you with materials setting forth these traffic laws.
In addition to those traffic laws abide by the following general principals:
1. You are sharing the road or the path with others -- motorists, pedestrians and other cyclists. Respect their rights,
and be tolerant if they infringe on yours.
2. Ride defensively.
3. Look ahead of where you're going, and be ready to avoid:
* Vehicles slowing or turning in front of you, entering the road or your lane ahead of you, or coming up behind you.
* Parked car doors opening in front of you.
* Pedestrians stepping out in front of you.
* Children or dogs playing near the road.
* Pot holes, sewer grating, railroad tracks, expansion joints, road or sidewalk construction, debris and other obstructions
that could cause you to swerve into traffic, catch your wheel or otherwise cause you to lose control and have an accident.
* The many other hazards and distractions which can occur while using the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™ during a ride.
4. Ride on the right side of the road, in the same direction as vehicle traffic and as close to the edge of the road as possible.
5. Stop at stop signs and traffic lights; slow down and look both ways at street intersections. Remember that the
GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™ will always lose in a collision with a motor vehicle, so be prepared to yield
even if you have the right of way.
6. Use hand signals for turning and stopping. Learn the local vehicle code for the correct signals.
7. Don't weave through traffic or make any moves that may surprise people with whom you are sharing the road.
8. Never carry anything which obstructs your vision or your complete control of the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™, or
which could become entangled in the moving parts of the GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™.
9. Never hitch a ride by holding on to another vehicle.
NEITHER ELECTRA ACCESSORIES NOR THE RETAIL SELLER OF THE GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™ IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATE AND LOCAL ORDINANCES
RELATING TO THE USE OF THE GAS CHOPPER SCOOTER™
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65
THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS LEAD AND LEAD COMPOUNDS, CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
TO CAUSE CANCER AND REPRODUCTIVE HARM. WASH HANDS AFTER HANDLING.